In this reflective episode, Adina and Joshua explore the ever-shifting nature of life — and how embracing impermanence allows us to live with more grace, freedom, and authenticity. Through personal stories, spiritual insight, and grounded reflection, they unpack what it really means to let go, surrender to change, and find peace in the unknown.

• Why this is Joshua's final episode and what's next for him.
• How clinging often amplifies suffering.
• Fear of loss drives attachment — whether to people, situations, or outcomes.
• True surrender opens the door to infinite possibility and creativity.
• “The wheel of life always turns” — fulfillment and growth are cyclical companions.
• How facing fear and resistance to change becomes a spiritual practice.
• The impact of “small-t” and complex trauma — the subtle forms of wounding we often overlook.
• How ancestral and past-life patterns may echo through present experience.
• The power of self-compassion: meeting yourself exactly where you are.
• Cultivating connection with something greater — the key to navigating change.
• Synchronicities as affirmations that you’re aligned with your path.
• Presence as the gateway to both healing and growth.
• Life as an ever-evolving canvas, not a problem to solve.
• Challenges reframed as portals for expansion and self-discovery.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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Episode Summary

In this inspiring episode Adina welcomes Danielle Sangita Rottenberg to chat about holistic wellbeing. Danielle is a holistic wellness coach, massage therapist, yoga teacher, intuitive energy worker, Ayurvedic practitioner, and spiritual guide. After a time serving through nonprofit work, Danielle turned to yoga to find balance and healing — a decision that transformed her life.

Danielle shares how her own healing journey inspired her work helping others integrate mind, body, and spirit through customized healing modalities. Together, Adina and Danielle explore the intersections of body work, energy work, and spiritual practices, offering insight into how ancient wisdom can support modern wellbeing.

Topics

• Releasing the need for external validation and embracing true self-expression.
• Insights from Ayurveda to sustain physical and emotional well-being.
• Integrating Reiki, shamanic practices, and ancestral healing for multidimensional wellness.
• How Danielle helps clients tune into their inner guidance and intuitive awareness.
• Creating safe, sacred spaces where healing unfolds through trust and presence.
• Danielle’s approach to intuitive massage.
• The importance of energetic hygiene and spiritual practice to maintain clear boundaries as a healer.

Resources Mentioned

Ayurveda Institute

Dr. David Frawley

Cate Stillman

Danielle Sangita Rottenberg is a holistic health coach, healer, and educator passionate about helping others live in alignment with their authentic selves. She integrates diverse modalities — including Ayurveda, Reiki, energy work, intuitive counseling, and bodywork — to support physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Danielle has co-authored Amazon bestsellers in the Activate Your Life series (Volumes 2 & 3) and recently launched Re-Activate Your Life, supporting women nonprofit leaders in achieving greater harmony and fulfillment.

Connect with Danielle via MassageBook

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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In this inspiring episode, Adina chats with Severn Eaton about his journey from a career in the arts to end-of-life care. Severn opens up about sobriety, spiritual awakening, and creative transformation, offering wisdom on how healing, art, and service intertwine. Severn reflects on how psychedelic and meditative practices helped him shed self-limiting beliefs and embrace a new way of living and creating.

Key Topics

• From Art to End-of-Life Care: How Severn’s creative background informed his calling as a death doula
• The Sacredness of Death: Lessons learned from being present with his mother during her final days
• Psychedelics, Sobriety, and Spiritual Growth: How healing practices led to clarity and compassion
• Ceremony and Presence: The role of music, silence, and beauty in end-of-life care
• Embracing Creativity and Impermanence: How art and death both invite surrender and transformation
• Unity in Diversity: Honoring all spiritual and secular perspectives at the end of life.
• Balancing the Material and the Spiritual: Finding wholeness in a world that often prioritizes achievement over being

Severn’s story is a powerful reminder that creativity, compassion, and consciousness are inseparable threads in the tapestry of life and death. His journey invites us all to live more fully, love more deeply, and meet death—our own and others’—as a sacred, natural transition.

Severn Eaton is a death doula, artist, teacher, father, and friend, raised in North Carolina, recently returned to Asheville from New York City. His background is primarily in visual arts, with a BFA from ASU and MFA from UNC-CH. His professional work has varied from studio practice, galleries and museums to building and academic positions. Recent turns have led him to in-depth studies in psychedelic therapies, dream studies and end of life care. He completed the Death Doula Program at the Center for Conscious Living and Dying in Swannanoa, NC. All of these practices are culminating in a unique way of serving a higher purpose in finding peace through working in healing arts and creative communities.

• Severn's Instagram: @severnsommervilleeaton

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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In this personal and expansive conversation, Adina chats with Monica LeBlanc about transition, trust, and spiritual awakening. Monica—a licensed therapist, coach, and writer based in Asheville—opens up about stepping away from traditional models of work and embracing a more intuitive, unconventional path.

They explore Monica’s personal and professional path, including awakening to her spiritual and extra-sensory gifts. With warmth and vulnerability, Monica shares moments from her childhood, powerful therapeutic encounters, and her ongoing process of embracing her psychic abilities.

This episode is a rich exploration of how we heal ourselves, trust the unknown, and make space for new dimensions of identity to emerge.

Topics Covered:

• Letting go of "masculine energy" in career transitions
• The intersection of therapy and spirituality
• Discovering mediumship and psychic gifts
• Differentiating intuition, empathy, and spiritual messages
• Honoring consent in spiritual work
• Family healing through spirit communication
• Learning to trust your experiences without external validation

Monica Leblanc is a therapist, coach, freelance writer and enneagram teacher. Based out of Asheville, NC, she sees clients who are navigating boundaries and limits with their family of origin. She uses a combination of IFS, the enneagram, experiential modalities and DARE to help recovering people pleasers alchemize their pain into purpose and meaning and create alignment in their choices. Monica spends time with her clients in sessions or intensives to help generate shifts where they feel stuck.

Monica teaches the enneagram in the embodiment tradition which is a lineage based in body energetics and utilizing awareness of our enneagram pattern for personal growth and alignment. She teaches public workshops, offers corporate retreats, and has online courses.

Monica was also the premier therapeutic writing contributor to Deepak Chopra’s online magazine, Chopa Global. She contributed topics including but not limited to boundaries, grief, and working with ancestral trauma. She is currently blogging and working on various writing projects.

Monica's website: monica-leblanc.com

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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In this episode, Joshua and Adina sit down with men’s sexuality coach Rob Kancler. Together, they explore how modern conditioning distorts sexuality—and how slowing down, regulating the nervous system, and returning to integrity can unlock profound intimacy, pleasure, and personal growth. Rob shares insights from 20+ years of research and practice spanning sexology, neuroscience, trauma healing, ancient traditions, and lived experience. The conversation moves from porn-shaped expectations and goal-chasing to embodied presence, attunement, and what Rob calls giving yourself space to have a real experience. You will hear why “climax-or-bust” impacts connection, how authentic sexuality spills over into every area of life, and practical first steps for men who want to lead with responsibility and heart.

• Guest: Rob Kancler, founder of Bedroom Genius and creator of Men of Substance and the Higher Sex Operating System
• Core themes: integrity over performance, intimacy vs. cultural programming, nervous system regulation, slowing down, presence, responsibility, addiction patterns, and life-wide impact
• Practical takeaways:
  • Slow the pace dramatically to meet the moment and your partner’s body
  • Build nervous system awareness and body intelligence before technique
  • Shift from performance to enjoyment and deep listening
  • Explore without pressure toward peak orgasm or ejaculation
  • Take responsibility for your sexual well-being instead of projecting or blaming
• Who it’s for: Especially powerful for men in hetero relationships, and valuable for anyone seeking more authentic connection and fulfillment

Quotes to remember:

• “What many call sexuality is sexual energy moving through a fear-based nervous system toward release.”
• “Integrity is wholeness—being in right relationship with who we really are.”
• “When sex aligns with our nature, benefits cascade into every area of life.”

Rob's website: robkancler.com

Rob's Instagram: @robkancler

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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We hit record in the middle of a real check-in, and what unfolded was an unfiltered, soul-led conversation about shifting from hustle to harmony, and from hyper-productivity to presence.

Joshua shares the breakdown that moved him out of hyper-yang doing and into tea-at-sunrise stillness. Adina reflects on embodiment, sacred service, and why meditation isn’t about “clearing your mind” but about learning to witness with compassion.

Together, we explore what it means to feel without the story, how somatic healing rewires us from the bottom up, and why living a “no regrets” life—rooted in responsibility and intention—is the deepest act of self-love.

This is an episode for entrepreneurs, seekers, and anyone craving a more integrated, soul-led way of being.

• From time-blocking every minute to courting spontaneity, shamanism, and magic
• Morning anchors: tea ceremony, meditation as witnessing, presence before action
• Somatics first: gentle breath + micro-movement to unlock emotion without the mind
• The myth of “I don’t have time” and questioning limiting beliefs with compassion
• Feeling vs. thinking: how our mental stories about our feelings create suffering
• “No regrets” w/ the caveat of responsibility: intention, integrity, and clean accountability
• Relationships, failure, and learning by fire—what balance FEELS like (not looks like)

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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Episode Description

In this powerful episode, Joshua and Adina talk with Success Coach Erica Carrico about her transformation from corporate burnout to building a multi-million dollar soul-aligned business. Erica's story demonstrates the life-changing power of remembering your true self.

Despite doing all the "right" things, Erica wasn't fulfilled. Then, at age 36, life delivered a powerful wake-up call: a kidney cancer diagnosis. Through this experience, she received the spiritual download that became her catalyst for transformation—leaving her job, ending her marriage, moving states, and starting her coaching business from a hospital bed.

In this episode, Erica shares her methodology for helping others discover their purpose. Now working with coaches and healers worldwide, Erica emphasizes that successful purpose-driven businesses must come from authentic passion. Key insights:

• Authenticity over templates: Finding your unique approach
• Maintaining focus: Avoiding comparison and staying true to your medicine
• Surrender and trust: Being a vessel rather than forcing outcomes

Key Takeaways

• Your pain can become your purpose through healing work
• Success comes from being more yourself, not copying others
• We all have original medicine that the world needs
• Building a business from the heart is necessary for sustainable success

Whether you're stuck in an unfulfilling career or seeking to live more authentically, Erica shows that with courage and inner trust, transformation is possible.

Connect with Erica at ericacarrico.com or @ericalyncarrico

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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Episode Description:
We didn’t plan it this way—but it was perfect. Season 9 begins with Josh and Adina pressing “record” right in the middle of a personal check-in, and what unfolded was a raw, unfiltered entry into the heart of this season’s theme: the dance of the masculine and feminine.

This spontaneous, alive conversation invites you into the sacred tension between structure and flow, logic and intuition, doing and being.

🌀 In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to let go of rigid strategies and allow the feminine to lead with slowness, receptivity, and intuition
• How to integrate the masculine as structure and protection—without dominance or burnout
• The cultural fears around the feminine: sensitivity, slowness, the unknown
• How relationships, conflict, and sexuality can become portals for healing and wholeness
• Stories, dreams, and archetypes that reveal the beauty of embracing both darkness and light

This was one of our most organic and alive recordings yet—a real-time reflection of the balance we were speaking to. It’s a deep breath, an invitation to slow down, and a call to listen differently.

Let this be your initiation into Season 9—a sacred space where presence, honesty, and integration light the fire we gather around.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

@soulbodywholeness

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